Diego Rodriguez

if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all

Stranded.

Porsche 959 healthy, or Porsche 914 healthy?

A sticker on a keyboard that says move purposefully and fix things.

My philosophy on this thanks to @djpatil.bsky.social

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I was so happy to read their great news last night.

To learn about the friction-fixing the U.S. Government really needs, please read this NYT editorial, follow Jennifer here, read her book, and see her www.eatingpolicy.com

She is cofounder of United States Digital Service, just renamed "United States DODGE Service" and @codeforamerica.bsky.social

@jamescham.bsky.social

Hello from 22A!

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This was one of the most substantive talks on the deleterious effects of phones on kids.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.

It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.

Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

"The overview effect is what astronauts typically achieve when they accomplish their first spaceflight and look back at the Earth. You see that it's a single planet with a shared atmosphere. It's our shared place in this universe."

Portrait of Astronaut Bob Behnken for the @nationalacademies.org.

So true. My co-authors and I have argued so much...I think of Anat Rafaeli, Jim March,Huggy Rao, Barry Staw, and above all, Jeff Pfeffer. Who liked to say "When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

Sarah Soule appointed dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business A scholar of organizational behavior in the GSB and a member of its leadership team for many years, Soule will become dean of the business school in mid-June.

We have a new dean at Stanford's Business School! @sarahsoule.bsky.social is one of my absolutely favorite scholars, leaders, and friends. Sarah has been so impressive leading @casbsstanford.bsky.social. Good news for students, alums, faculty, administrators.

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

TERRY GROSS: “I’m going to ask you for a little lesson in etiquette. Do I call you President Carter, Mr. President, or our former President Jimmy Carter?”

JIMMY CARTER: “One of the nice things about our country is that you can call me anything you want to.”

I invest in, and buy products from companies that I can be proud of.

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@dansinker.com deserves his own TV talk show.

I mean, he is the only person I have ever seen leave @stephencolbert.bsky.social speechless.

The “Amsterdam” noise photo in the article features cars with New York license plates and targets a Prius.

Otherwise an informative piece.

"Your job is not to tell people what to do, but to
dedicate yourself to helping them do better."

Portrait of Alphabet Chairman, former Stanford President and National Academy of Engineering member, John Hennessy for the @nationalacademies.org #NewHeroes

Apparently I’m nominated for Best Beard in Chicago and so ok go vote please I guess
bestof.chicagoreader.com/city-life…

“Headlight brightness has roughly doubled since 2015.”

YouTube video by Canepa Motorsport 1969 Porsche 917 shakedown at Canepa

Bruce Canepa road testing a 917 on Highway 17 was the exact inspiration I needed tonight.

youtu.be/t0Kv2wYFQ_A?...

Antarctic Aviation: Boeing 757, Basler BT-67, de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Ilyushin IL-76. #Photography #Aviation #Antarctica

Essential @pahlkadot.bsky.social on the “Cascade of Rigidity” in government

open.substack.com/pub/eatingpo...

Stop telling constituents they're wrong But start making sure your policies don't fall prey to the cascade of rigidity

I'm taking sides in a spat between Congresswoman MGP and those defending the defensiveness of the left. Exactly what the regs say is not the point. The point is the impact they have. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/stop-telli...

How Do Labor Shortages Affect Residential Construction and Housing Affordability?* Troup Howard„ Mengqi Wang… Dayin Zhang§ April 2023 Abstract U.S. housing markets have faced a secular shortage of housing supply in the past decade. Most explanations in the literature have tended to focus on the distortionary effect of local housing regulations. This paper provides novel evidence on a less-explored channel affecting housing supply: shortages of construction labor. We exploit the staggered rollout of a national increase in immigration enforcement to identify nega- tive shocks to construction sector employment that are likely exogenous with respect to local housing market conditions. We show that treated counties experience large and persistent reductions in residential construction activity, using measures of both planned and realized construction activity. This reduced housing supply is associated with increases in home prices. We also show that domestic labor supply does not fully offset immigration-related reductions in the construction sector; and that within higher-skilled construction occupations, U.S. workers see net declines as a consequence of increased immigration enforcement.

Figure 1: New Constructions and Construction Workers Figure shows a big reduction in construction workers around 2008-2009 is associated with a big decrease in new housing units. The reduction persists for a decade. NOTE: This figure plots the time treads of constructed new housing units and construction workers. The green bars are the annual new housing units per 1000 population (left axis) in the U.S. from Census Bureau and HUD. The two dash lines indicates the average levels of new housing units per 1000 population pre- GFC (1968–2007) and post-GFC (2009–2021). The orange line plots the number of construction workers per 1000 population (right axis) from ACS.

Trump argues mass deportation will reduce housing costs. In contrast, study finds increased immigration enforcement causes shortages of construction labor and “large reductions in residential construction… [which] is associated with increases in home prices.” www.haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Latino and Latina are banned?!

So nice!!!

Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Heller, and How to Think Like a Mensch This story remains my favorite Thanksgiving message; it reminds me to be grateful for what I have and of the evils of jealousy and destructive competition. I first posted it on my work matters blog mo...

A new start is good time to go back to some favorite memories. Here's one, about Kurt Vonnegut, Catch-22, and "The No Asshole Rule."

www.linkedin.com/pulse/kurt-v...

A group of Galápagos penguins (Spheniscus mendiculus) swam around me on a snorkel at Punta Vicente Roca on Isla Isabela in the Galápagos a few weeks ago and I was lucky enough to spend some time photographing them. After my first visit, Galápagos has become one of my favorite places on this planet.